DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH

10 March 1947 Edgbaston, Birmingham

EDUCATION

1950-58 Holy Child Jesus Convent, Edgbaston

1958-64 St Mary’s Convent, Shaftesbury

Entered the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1964. Read Modern Languages (BA French and Spanish) at London University and obtained the Post-Graduate Certificate of Education from Cambridge University in 1971. Westminster Diploma in Theology 1970-1974. Post-Graduate Certificate in Information Studies in 1996. Left the IBVM 2000.

POSITIONS HELD

1971-85 Senior mistress Modern Languages at St Mary’s, Ascot; St Mary’s, Cambridge; St Mary’s, Shaftesbury; and the Bar Convent, York.

1985-90 Institute of Spirituality at Heythrop College, University of London and co-editor of two international journals of spirituality, THE WAY and THE WAY SUPPLEMENT.

1991-95 Associate Secretary for the Community of Women and Men in the Church at the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland, including retreats & training courses for ordinands.

1997-03 Tutor at Westcott House, Cambridge.

2003-5 Reporter, The Wells Journal.

BROADCASTING

Regular broadcaster with the BBC 1988-2002 on ‘Thought for the Day’. Presenter of the Daily Service on Radio 4 from 1994. BBC World Service ‘Words of Faith’ from 1990.

AWARDS

Honorary Doctor of Divinity, University of Birmingham, July 1997;

Visitor's Trophy, Dulcote and Dinder Village Fete, August 2001 and 2002.